The camera is god: photographer Trent Parke grapples with an impossible humanism

The title of Parke's current exhibition alludes to a 19th-century faith in the camera’s mechanical vision as superior to human vision – while also complicating that assumption for modern viewers. By capturing human experience, humanist photographs were said to rise above their actual content to represent larger values or ethics. But such myths obscured the agendas at work in the making, publication and exhibition of photographs.
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